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Well the summer flew bye much faster than I remember. Fall is in full affect and the snow is on the mountains. The boys have been doing good in school, despite owen getting into headstart. I’m tired all the time. Oh, and I’m starting a new blog about bike commuting in ogden the the winter. I figure why not. Til next time….
I heard today that google can remotely delete any app on your phone that it wants. It just did it to 2 apps this last week.
Now at first I was pissed, but then not so much. Why the change you might ask. Well, sharing is caring and its s good thing. Imagine kids are sharing a toy, if the toy is dangerous or malicious then the adult would take it away. That’s not because they want to exert control, but rather that the toy is dangerous and the adult is just trying to keep the children from any unnecessary danger.
I like this. See, google lets its “kids” learn by natural consequences. Apple on the other hand wraps there “kids” in bubble wrap, not really allowing them to try anything.
What I’m saying is, thanks google, but next time maybe you could tell us this kind of stuff.
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Sometimes your the super hero and sometimes your not. Sometimes you have to play the roll of the side kick even though
Your not.
This last week I have found myself playing the hero roll. I wouldn’t normally mind it, its just that its exhausting. And this has been one long week. Trying to perform better at work mixed with family is always tough. Then again there are very few times when its not.
So this week I’m going to make it shorty and sweet. If you’ve been the sidekick lately, step up a little more. Trust me your super hero needs it!
“we could make a bug, if we wanted too”. This little thought was presented to me this morning by my oldest son Owen. He is 3 and a dreamer. He brings me this little ideas more often than I can count. Usually its something like, “I’m gunna go start a fire in my room”. I then tell him we don’t play with fire and he reminds me its pretend, dad. This exchange usually ends with me walking in his room with either all his clothes or all his books in one big pile. I then ask him what he was thinking he was doing. He responds with, I built a fire.
What I see as a mess I’m going to have to clean up, he sees as a roaring fire. This got me thinking, does this mean everytime I tell him to stop climbing up his dresser I’m really just interupting his Everest ? Now I know I just don’t want him to fall of his dresser and get hurt, but am I killing his dream to do so ?
I tried thinking back to when popsicles sticks taped to the feet of my gi Joe were no longer skis, when no matter how hard I tried I didn’t feel like I was deep sea diving when I was just in the bathtub. What I came up with made me worried. It was after 3rd grade. More importantly, it was after just a few years in public school. After the third grade I would have to really try to make believe. Using my head wasn’t enough, I needed props now. Before I could shoot laser beams out of my fingers, now I needed nerf toys to just sword fight. Alot of my friends seemed to have this same problem. The only coralation we all seemed to share was school.
When I realized this I jumped online. Searching for anyone else who had brought up this problem, and what they may have found. If I was to make a link for even one out of every five posts I found on this, this blog would be very, very long. If you were to look at just one example, go to YouTube, search for TED. And check out the video at the top by sir ken Robinson.
After I whent through just about most of what I could find on the net, I decided to take the boys to the park. There was a big windstorm the day before and lots of downed tree limbs. So we did the only thing we could, we built the best damn fort in the park. Not that there was anyone else there building forts. But if there was a fort built after ours, it wouldn’t touch it. Just look at the pic above.
So in closing, did we build a bug ? I think we did. It just looked like a fort and smelled like the grass. And felt like good memories do. It’s funny, a 3 yr old told me we could build a bug if we wanted too. He was rite.
The longer I’m a father, the more I seem to re-live my youth. By that I mean I remember how it was to base the time I would do something off of desire.
Children will engage in any activity for any amount of time. Regardless of whether there are time constraints or not. Desire is the one true measurement they use. If one of my boys desires to play in the pool long after there burnt to a crisp, they will keep ongoing. And when I tell them that its time to go inside and dry up, they give me a look that says, “uh… my desire watch doesn’t say so”.
Although I can respect time management off of desire, I unfortunately don’t have that ability anymore. See, the way I see it, responsibility controls our time as an adult. Were responsible for the laundry getting done, cooking dinner/ etc. This ofcoarse is the burden of every parent. One we either accept, or are forced to learn.
But, maybe there is another way. One in which we can combine our responsibility with our desires. maybe, our responsibility is to our desires, and its our job to responsibly have as much fun as possible with our kids.
This would make a lot of sense. To learn how to follow our desires as a kid, but be wise enough to know when to stop as an adult. Possibly even guide the kids on there adventure, instead of telling them when to experience it. But alas, the kids will get tired and cranky. And us, the parents will be left with all the cleanup. Which is sure to be a lot.
Hell, maybe I’ll get lucky and one of the kids will do something bad, possibly need an extra chore to do. Bet I could rangle up some laundry, that’ll teach them some responsibility.
Here’s to a summer full of child like wonder, cheers.
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So I just finished setting up my dog Moe’s blog. Yes my dog now has a blog. You read that rite, the Android marketplace has an app called pet next door. By the looks of it this app started in Europe but seems to be catching on here in the states farly quickly.
The app allows you to upload a photo of your pet, aswell as tell a story and name, age, gender and the like. Telling a “story” seems to be the way in which you use the site like a blog.
With as much crazy crap as moe gets into I’m sure to have a lot to write about. And who knows, the time it takes me to blog for my dog may be just as rewarding as combing him. Or ooooo…… maybe even as much fun as folding his sweaters and matching his boots to collars.
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So I love cooking with Bacon fat. If you know me personally then you know this. But tonight was my first time cooking pork chops with Bacon fat instead of butter. This is the best way by far. if you love Bacon you will love this. If you don’t then you will still love this.
Oh, and androids word press to go app is great. I’ll be doing a review for it and finishing my 2 part review on the droid Eris on tagon42′s brain sparks blog. Which is sure to be the webs next hot blog. As always see you next time and untill then head over to
Tagon42.Wordpress.com
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I’m in ogden yesterday, when I see a man and his ” wife to be”, walk out of there apartment to go get the mail. When they get to the mailbox this other guy says something presumably about the lady who looks like she’s a crackhead.
So the “husband to be” try’s put the guy in his place by telling him, “shut the f%#k up, or I’ll drop your ass”. Then all of a sudden, as if out of a movie. The guy pulls a knife out. Not just any knife, but what looks like a small turkish sward.
Naturally the “H.T.B” starts looking around for something to fight back with. Wouldnt you know it, ther’s what looks to be half a childs t-ball bat just sitting on the ground. So they start having a full on “I’m funna end u”, style fight. Now the fight itself only lasted about 3 to 4 minutes. But wow it was intense. Then like any cool fight seen it was just over. Unlike really cool fight seens though, it ended by the H.T.B just going back to his apt.
Now some people would see what the H.T.B did as modern shivalry. Or atleast defending his brides honor. But who in the hell defends the honor of a crackhead? Do crackheads have any honor to defend?
To me the whole thing looked like a wild animal fight on national geographic.
Poor, hungry, ignorent people………… are funny as hell.
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The maker’s of Canada Dry Ginger ale, have brought it upon themselves to warn every drinker of there product that it may cause harmfull eye injury.
I quote, ” Warning contents under preasure. Cap may blow off causing eye or other serious injury. Point away from face and people. Especially while opening”.
Wow, and to top it off, Canada Dry isnt even from canada. It’s from Pepsi co in Plano TX. When did american company’s decide pretending to be Canadian was a good marketing tool?
I called the consumer comments # (1-866-say-cdry) to try and get that question awnsered, but as of this post they have not returned my call or awnsered the question on www.CanadaDry.com. link below in the blogroll.Filed under: Uncategorized
As everyone knows by now, mountain dew and WOW got togather to make an advertising baby. Neither of them thinking of wearing protection, (well WOW thought of it once while on the receiving end) or anything. Now because of that “happy accident”, we have mountain dew game fuel. And count our lucky stars, they had twins. One being Wild Fruit and the other Citrus Cherry Blast.
Now as your guide on this adventure I would like to say that I was a little sick when I tryed the two flavors.
So the citrus cherry flavor is for the “Hoard” and the berry flavor is for the “alliance”. To get it out of the way the alliance flavor is way better, a shit ton better. But i do have to say its only because the hoard flavor is actually a variation of the Halo flavor. Contrary to popular belief I dont think the citrus cherry is the exact same as the halo flavor. The halo flavor was like cherry’s and orange, and thats it. This new blend has a crazy, allmost original mountain dew blend base to it. With a scoush of cherry, and seemingly air filling the rest of your mouth up.
But again the berry is just better.
If you must rite now, get more info at mountaindewgamefuel.com. At wich you can earn and redeem points for shit. Apearantly so many people do this you can begin to recruit others. Therfore getting even more points.
Allso check out youtube, for other wacky and crazy mtn dew stuff. Check out the blogroll below for the links.
LOL, OMG, STFU.
